Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
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We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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